re: Robert E. Lee has been misrepresented by regressive "historians"

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Prior to that he planned on staying MOSTLY defensive. He messed up by going into Gettysburg

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He had been on the offensive since he took command in June 1862. The Seven Days' Campaign was an offensive campaign; the Second Manassas Campaign was an offensive campaign; the Maryland Campaign was an offensive campaign; the Chancellorsville Campaign was an offensive campaign. The only campaign he fought while primarily on the defensive, between June 1862 and May 1864, was the Fredericksburg Campaign.

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His lower commanders and regular soldiers were begging him not to surrender.

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A few of them were begging him not to surrender. There were those, such as Longstreet, who were in support of his decision to surrender to Grant.

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Meh, this will be debated for the next 100 years. Nobody ever wins this argument.

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People win. The defeated merely think they have won. The states which seceded prior to Fort Sumter, with the possible exception of Texas, seceded primarily to protect the institution of slavery.